North Raccoon -- Cataloging Unit 07100006

• Des Moines Subregion 0710
  
• Upper Mississippi Region 07 (There are 131 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Iowa.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 6408.2 km² ( 2475.3 mi² ) [% in USA = 89.25, % in Region = 96.18]
  The area from the USGS is 2460 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 687)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2558973 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 360.0 m ( 1181.1 ft ) [% in USA = 46.19, % in Region = 77.86]
  The elevation standard deviation is 38.1 m ( 125.0 ft ) [% in USA = 29.99, % in Region = 69.47]
  The coefficient of variation is 10.6 %.
  The vertical relief is 232.9 m ( 764.1 ft ) [% in USA = 33.87, % in Region = 77.10]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	233.1	305.0	328.0	347.0	353.0	365.0	373.0	380.0	390.0	407.5	466.0
  feet	764.8	1000.6	1076.1	1138.4	1158.1	1197.5	1223.7	1246.7	1279.5	1336.9	1528.9

  

  V. Map Line Analysis

  Note- percentiles are for the feature density, not for the raw total lengths.
  

  line type	km	mi	km/km²	mi/mi²	% in USA	% in Region
  Perennial Shoreline	649.8	403.8	0.101	0.163	56.61	44.27
  Intermittent Shoreline	53.6	33.3	0.008	0.013	82.80	92.37
  Perennial Streams	1582.0	983.2	0.247	0.397	47.61	37.40
  Intermittent Streams	1195.0	742.7	0.186	0.300	30.03	22.14
  Canals	323.0	200.8	0.050	0.081	85.17	87.02
  1° roads	80.5	50.0	0.013	0.020	58.55	51.15
  2° roads	236.4	146.9	0.037	0.059	67.03	62.60
  3° roads	469.2	291.6	0.073	0.118	61.91	38.17
  4° roads	8841.4	5494.9	1.380	2.220	70.91	72.52
  Total Roads	9627.5	5983.5	1.502	2.417	68.55	69.47
  Railroads	497.0	308.9	0.078	0.125	77.64	58.78
  Pipes and Powerlines	113.0	70.2	0.018	0.028	35.15	27.48

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 35.87% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 39.27, % in Region = 29.77]

  VI. Other sites

  • EPA- Surf Your Watershed - Index of Watershed Indicators
  • USGS- Science in Your Watershed - Selected Realtime Streamflow Stations
  • CTIC- Known Your Watershed

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  1999 SEPT 4, Last updated on 2003 JAN 23
  
  D.L. Gustafson, dlg@rapid.msu.montana.edu